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The Ministry of Labour has been called in to investigate the death of a 16-year-old Norwich Township man following a fatal two-person crash Tuesday just south of Norwich.

At approximately 11:43 a.m., Grade 12 student Garret Stubbe was driving a WRC Purifying cube van west on Quaker Street -- a road controlled by east- and westbound stop signs at the intersection of Oxford County Road 13.

George Shelton, 80, the other man killed in the tragic collision, was travelling north in his Toyota SUV on Oxford County Road 13. The Ingersoll-area man's vehicle was struck on the passenger side by the cube van when it entered the intersection. The van eventually stopped on a nearby home's front lawn.

Stubbe's vehicle rolled several times and was almost completely destroyed before coming to a stop on its roof in a ditch.

Stubbe, a senior student at Rehoboth Christian School, was enrolled in the school's co-operative education program and was placed at WRC Purifying, a water treatment and pump specialist business based in Norwich.

The program is offered at the faith-based private school through an agreement with Delhi District Secondary School (DDSS).

It is believed the teen was doing additional paid work for the company outside of his school hours.

Employees from WRC Purifying in Norwich declined to comment when contacted by the Sentinel-Review.

William Lin, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Labour, could not confirm if Stubbe was a paid employee at the company.

Any time there is a death or serious injury in a workplace, Lin said Labour Ministry investigators attend the scene and prepare a report outlining if any health and safety regulations were violated. The ministry's investigation is ongoing.

Shawn McKillop, spokesperson for the Grand Erie District School Board, which includes the Delhi school, said the fatal collision occurred outside of the teen's regular co-op hours of 7 a.m. to 11 a.m.

"We are deeply saddened by the news. Our deepest condolences go out to the school, students and the family," McKillop said.

"Because this took place on the company time, the individual was a co-op student but the co-op placement was over. It gets grey," he said during a telephone interview Tuesday.

The unique agreement between the faith-based school and DDSS meant Stubbe had never actually attended school in Delhi. A DDSS teacher runs the co-op program inside the Christian school.

Oxford OPP Const. Dennis Harwood said Stubbe was legally licensed to drive the vehicle and no special licences are required to drive cube vans.

Police are continuing their investigation into the cause of the collision.

Harwood said it could take days or weeks before the investigation is concluded.

The tragic collision resulting in the death of Stubbe and Shelton is the third fatal collision to occur on Oxford County roadways in just over three weeks.